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Monument

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Unfortunately Lloyd Biggle is grossly underrated. I have read everything I can get my hands on by him and have loved all of it. Monument is a classic of social and political commentary told with great humor. The characters are rich and believeable and the story is classic, it keeps you interested and intrigued to the last page. Read Monument. Read anything by Biggle.

I pulled this one out because I'd been thinking of it for a friend of mine who's working on becoming an environmental lawyer: environmental-legal-science fiction. I'll have to keep an eye out for a copy for her. It's also a sentimental favorite of mine: a self-educated man teaches the natives of a paradisical planet how to defend themselves against the inevitable developers, and they succeed following his Plan. Look forward to the moment when the lawyer for the natives turns the tables on his opponent in one breathtaking, delightful twist.

Not quite as good as I remembered it being, but entertaining nonetheless.

A tropical paradise planet has been discovered by civilization. The developers are crowding out the natives. Their one hope is a Plan written by a pilot who crashed on their world before civilization found it. Will the Plan save them?

One of my very favorite books.

In my wood shop I have an old electric wall clock from the 1960s. It is simple, and it still works perfectly. Biggle's MONUMENT is like this clock. It dates from way back when SF books were simple, internally consistent stories.

Too bad the newer stuff isn't as simple and satisfying. Like my clock, this story will go on and on and on....

This is a wonderful, if simple, story of humanity's greed and how one man's plan stimies the galactic power brokers.